The Iola register., 1887-02-11

horses now being hitched to ammunition
wagons or saddlei for cavalry charge.
That time must come, or through the in
creased facility for shooting men and blow
ing up cities and whelming hosts to
Instant death, 30 that we can kill regi-
ment easier than we could once
kill company, and kill brigade
easier than we could oncc kill regiment,
the patent offices Of the world more busy
than ever in recognizing the enginery Of
destruction. the human race will after
awhile 60 fighting with one arm, and hob
bling with one foot, and stumbling along
with one eye. and some Ingenious inventor,
inspired of the archangel Of all mischief,
will contrive . machine that will bore a
hole to the earth's center, and some des-
perate nation will throw into that hole
enough dynamite to blow this hulk Of
planet into fragments, dropping like mo
teoric stones ON surrounding stellar habi-
tations.
But this shall not be, for whatever else
let go hang on to my Bible, which tells
me that the blacksmith's shop shall yet
come tc its grandest use, when the warrior
and the husbandman shall enter it side BY
side, and the soldier shall throw into its
bank Of fires his sword, and the farmer
shall pick it up q p!owshare, and the
straightest spear shall be bent into crook
at each end and then cut in two. and what
was one spear shall be two pruning forks.
Down with Moloch and up with Christ!
Let no more war horses eat out of the
manger where Jesus was born.
Peace! Forever roll OIL the SKY the black
pillars Of smoke from the Marengos and
Salamancas and Borodinos and Ssdans and
Gettysburgs of earthl And right after
them roll into the heavens the peaceful
vapors Of the chimneys Of farm houses,
and asylums, and churches, and capitals OF
Christian nations. and as the sunlight
strikes through these vapors they will
write in letters Of jet and gold all over the
sky from horizon to zenith: "Glory to God
in the highest, and on earth peace, good will
toward menr' Then let all the men-of-war
fire broadside and all the forts thunder
forth a resounding volley. and the earth be
girled with the clnnonale over the final
victory of the truth.
While thinking Of these things looked
from nv window and the wind was vio-
lently blowing. And { saw from many
chimneys the smoke tossed in the air and
, whirled in great velocity, volume after
volume, fold after foE, and carried or the
swift wind were the great pillars of
smoke And helped by Solomon in the
text saw the speed Of the church symbol
lied. Do you realize the momentum the
church Of God is uneers Why, tho smoke
of chimney on the top of Mount Wash
incton when the wind is blowing sixty
miles the hour is slow as compared With
the celerity Of good influences.
For ffty-nine centuries the devil had II
his own way ameng the nations. Nearly
all the missionary movements have been
started within the century and see what
| one century has done to recover the world
from ffty-nin centuries Of devastation.
What great rcvivals! What mighty
churchesl What saved millions, What
| advancing civilization! In ell the United
States. Great Britain, France, ireland,
| Germany, Itaiy, full freedom to WORSHIP
Ged according to conscience. Along the
coasts OF China, Japan and Africa the bat
tcries are planted which are to take all
these empires for God and civilization.
From the runs of Babylon and Assyr,a
and Nineveh and the valleys of the Nile
confirmations have been exhumed proving
to all fail. minded men that the Bible is the
truest book ever written. The mytholo-
!
in them the knowledge of map's expulsion
from Paradise, and the sacrifice of great
emancipator. Moses account Of the crea-
ticn, corroborated by the hammer of geolo-
gists: the oldest profane writers like
Eiromus, Eelanicus and Berosus, confirm.
| ing the Bible account of ancient longe ity;
TacituS and Piiny confirming the Bible ac-
counts of destroyed Sodom and G. Glmorrah; !;
2-acitus and Porphyry telling the same
story of Christ as Matthew and Luke told:
| Macrobius telling of the massacre of chill
dren in Bethlehem, and Phlegsn shetching
the darkness at the cruciix.On
! 1t is demonstrated to all h oEest men that
J It is not SO certain that William Cutler
Bryant yNrate Thanatopsis or LOngfe!low
wrote Hiawatha as that God tT the hand
| of prophet ami apostle wrote the Bible. Al.
| the wise men il science an! lax and med
I icine and literature and merchandise are
| gradually coming to believe in Christianity,
! and soon there will be no people who dis
believe in il, except those conspicuous
| for lack of brain or men with rS.o families,
| who do not like the Bible because it re
| Dukes their swinish propensitses-
The time is fastening when there will be
| no infidels left except libertiuss and har.
bots and murdercrs. Millions of Christians
( where once there were thousands, anc
| thousands where once there were hun
d-eds. What a bright evening this, the
evening of the nineteenth centnryi and
the twentieth century, which will dawn in
thirteen years from now, will, in my opin-
/ ION, bring universal victory for Christ and
the church, tha. now is marching on with
step doutle quick or, if you prefer the
| figure of the text, is being swept on in the
i mighty gales of blessing, imposing and
| grand and maize and swift, like pillars
of smoke.
Gh, come into the church through Christ,
the door, the door more glorious than that
of the Temple Of Hercules, which had two
pillars, and one was gold and the other
emerald! Come in to-day! Come in anG
| be enc of the eternal victors! The world
you leave behind is poor world, and il
will burn and pass of like pillars of smoke.
Whether the final ,confagratiOn will start
| in the coal mines Of Pennsylvania, which,
in some plac IS, hare for many years been
| burning and eating into the heart of the
| mountains; or whether it shall begin near
! the California geysers. or whether from
out Of the furnaces Of Cotopaxi and Vesu-
vius and Strombo!i, it shall burst forth
upon the astonished nations.
| make no prophecy, but all gelogists tell
US that ne stand on the lid of world the
! heart OF which is a raging, roaring, awful
/ fame, and some day God will let the red
| monstersGut of their Imprisonment Of cent
uries, AID New York on fire in 1875, and
| Charleston on fire in 1866. and Chicago on
fire in 1871, and Boston on fire in 1s73 were
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